Example Sentences

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Budget carriers like Breeze, Allegiant and Frontier are swooping in on Spirit’s former routes as well as circling its valuable takeoff and landing slots at bigger airports.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

As the office market bottoms out after a long fall, renters are swooping in to buy their own buildings.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Along the coast in the city of Tyre, Israeli jets are swooping low, breaking the sound barrier - but the beach below is more crowded.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024

And regulators are swooping in amid concern about how to protect investors in organizations that do not adopt traditional business and accounting practices.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2022

That or birds are swooping around above my head.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson